Through Women's Eyes, Combined Volume : An American History with Documents

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Synthesizing the best and most current scholarship, Through Women's Eyes: An American History with Documentsis a widely admired, ground-breaking text. The first to present a narrative of U.S. women's history within the context of the central developments of the United States and to integrate written and visual primary sources into each chapter through its signature docutext format, it is perfect for teaching history as a dynamic process of interpretation. With its focus on women from a broad range of ethnicities, classes, religions, and regions, Through Women's Eyesmore than ever helps students understand how women are an integral part of U.S. history.

Ellen Carol DuBois is Professor of History and Women’s Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles. DuBois is the author of Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848-1969; Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Women’s Suffrage (winner of the 1998 Joan Kelly Price Award from the American Historical Association); and Woman Suffrage and Women’s Rights. Her current women’s history work focuses on international feminist politics in the interwar years. Lynn Dumenil is Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History at Occidental College. Dumenil has written The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s and Freemasonry and American Culture: 1880-1930. She is editor in chief of the forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History.

Chapter 1. America in the World to 1650Native American WomenEuropeans ArriveAfrican Women and the Atlantic Slave Trade Conclusion: Many BeginningsVisual Sources: Images of Native American WomenDocuments: African Women and the Slave Trade Chapter 2. Colonial Worlds, 1607-1750Southern British ColoniesNorthern British ColoniesOther Europes/Other AmericasConclusion: The Diversity of American WomenDocuments: By and About Colonial WomenVisual Sources: Material CultureVisual Sources: Depictions of “Family” in Colonial America Chapter 3. Mothers and Daughters of the Revolution, 1750–1800Background to Revolution, 1754-1775Women and the Face of War, 1775-1783Revolutionary Era LegaciesConclusion: To the Margins of Political ActionVisual Sources: Portraits of Revolutionary WomenVisual Sources: Gendering Images of the RevolutionDocuments: Phillis Wheatley, Poet and SlaveDocuments: Education and Republican Motherhood Chapter 4. Pedestal, Loom, and Auction Block, 1800–1860The Ideology of True WomanhoodWomen and Wage EarningWomen and SlaveryConclusion: True Womanhood and the Reality of Women’s LivesDocuments: Prostitution in New York City, 1858Documents: Two Slave Love StoriesVisual Sources: Godey’s Lady’s BookVisual Sources: Early Photographs of Factory Operatives and Slave Women Chapter 5. Shifting Boundaries: Expansion, Reform, and Civil War, 1840-1865An Expanding Nation, 1843-1861Antebellum ReformCivil War, 1861-1865Conclusion: Reshaping Boundaries, Redefining Womanhood*Documents: Dame Shirley’s Letters: A Woman’s Gold RushDocuments: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Writing in the Lily and UnaVisual Sources: Women on the Civil War Battlefields Chapter 6. Reconstructing Women’s Lives North and South, 1865-1900Gender and the Postwar Constitutional AmendmentsWomen’s Lives in Southern Reconstruction and RedemptionFemale Wage Labor and the Triumph of Industrial CapitalismWomen of the Leisured ClassesConclusion: Toward a New WomanhoodDocuments: Ida B. Wells, “Race Woman”Documents: The Woman Who ToilsVisual Sources: The Higher Education of Women in the Postbellum Years*Visual Sources: The New Woman Chapter 7. Women in an Expanding Nation: Consolidation of the West, Mass Immigration, and the Crisis of the 1890sConsolidating the WestLate Nineteenth-Century ImmigrationCentury’s End: Challenges, Conflict, and Imperial VenturesConclusion: Nationhood and Womanhood on the Eve of a New CenturyDocuments: Zitkala-Ša: Indian Girlhood and EducationDocuments: Jane Addams and the Charitable RelationVisual Sources: Jacob Riis’s Photographs of Immigrant Girls and Working Women*Visual Sources: Women at the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893 Chapter 8. Power and PoliticsWomen in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920The Female Labor ForceThe Female DominionVotes For WomenThe Emergence of FeminismThe Great War, 1914-1918Conclusion: New Conditions, New ChallengesVisual Sources: Parades, Picketing and PowerVisual Sources: Uncle Sam Wants You: Women and World War I PostersDocuments: Modernizing Womanhood*Documents: American Women on the International Stage, 1915-1919 Chapter 9. Change and Continuity: Women in Prosperity, Depression, and War, 1920-1945Prosperity Decade: The 1920sDepression Decade: The 1930sWorking for Victory: Women and War, 1941-1945Conclusion: The New Woman in Ideal and RealityDocuments: Young Women Speak OutDocuments: Women in New Deal NetworksVisual Sources: Women at Work*Visual Sources: Dorothea Lange Photographs Farm Women of the Great Depression Chapter 10. Beyond the Feminine Mystique: Women’s Lives, 1945-1965Family Culture and Gender RolesWomen’s Activism in Conservative TimesA Mass Movement for Civil RightsWomen and Public PolicyConclusion: The Limits of the Feminine MystiqueVisual Sources: Television’s Prescriptions for WomenDocuments: “Is a Working Mother a Threat to the Home?”Documents: Women in the Civil Rights Movement Chapter 11. Modern Feminism and American Society, 1965 to 1977Roots of Sixties FeminismWomen’s Liberation and the Sixties RevolutionsIdeas and Practices of Women’s LiberationDiversity, Race, and FeminismThe Impact of FeminismChanging Public Policy and Public ConsciousnessConclusion: Feminism’s LegacyVisual Sources: Feminism and the Drive for Equality in the WorkplaceDocuments: Women’s Liberation Chapter 12. U.S. Women in a Global Age, 1980-presentFeminism and the New Right in American Politics Women and PoliticsWomen’s Lives in Modern America and the WorldConclusion: Women Face a New Century*Documents: Women in 21st Century PoliticsVisual Sources: American Women in the World * = New to this edition